The Monocle Arts Review Creators & Guests

Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic. Currently, he is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, an editor of the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review section, and poetry editor of The New Criterion.Kirsch's poems have appeared in Paris Review, Partisan Review, the Formalist, Harvard Review, and the New Criterion. His first book, the collection "The Thousand Wells," was published in 2002. He has published four collections of poetry, six books on literary criticism, and three biographies.

Deborah Treisman is an author and editor. Currently, she is the Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, where she hosts "The New Yorker Fiction Podcast," and the edits the anthology "20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker."Previously, Treisman was the editor of the literary magazine Grand Street, and before that she worked at Harper's Bazaar.Treisman received her B.A. in Comparative literature from the University of California Berkeley.